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“No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why.”
― The Blazing World
― The Blazing World
“The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“No, I’m no patriot, nor was I ever allowed to be. And yet, the
country of my childhood lives within me with a primacy that is
a form of love. It lives within me despite my knowledge of our
marginality, and its primitive, unpretty emotions. Is it blind
and self-deceptive of me to hold on to its memory? I think it
would be blind and self-deceptive not to. All it has given me is
the world, but that is enough. It has fed me language, percep-
tions, sounds, the human kind .... no geometry of landscape,
no haze in the air, will live in us as intensely as the landscapes
that we saw as the fi rst, and to which we gave ourselves wholly,
without reservation.”
― Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
country of my childhood lives within me with a primacy that is
a form of love. It lives within me despite my knowledge of our
marginality, and its primitive, unpretty emotions. Is it blind
and self-deceptive of me to hold on to its memory? I think it
would be blind and self-deceptive not to. All it has given me is
the world, but that is enough. It has fed me language, percep-
tions, sounds, the human kind .... no geometry of landscape,
no haze in the air, will live in us as intensely as the landscapes
that we saw as the fi rst, and to which we gave ourselves wholly,
without reservation.”
― Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
“... Но ме тревожи следният въпрос: щом няма бог, пита се кой тогава ръководи живота человечески и изобщо целия ред на тази земя?
- Човекът сам си го ръководи - сърдито побърза да отговори Бездомни на този, да си признаем, не твърде ясен въпрос.
- Извинете - меко възрази непознатият, - но за да ръководиш, е необходимо все пак да разполагаш с точен план за известен, що-годе продължителен срок от време. Затова позволете да ви запитам: как може човекът да ръководи нещо, щом не само е лишен от възможността да си предначертае план, та макар и за смехотворно кратък срок - да речем, за около хиляда години, но не може да бъде сигурен дори в собствения си утрешен ден?”
― The Master and Margarita
- Човекът сам си го ръководи - сърдито побърза да отговори Бездомни на този, да си признаем, не твърде ясен въпрос.
- Извинете - меко възрази непознатият, - но за да ръководиш, е необходимо все пак да разполагаш с точен план за известен, що-годе продължителен срок от време. Затова позволете да ви запитам: как може човекът да ръководи нещо, щом не само е лишен от възможността да си предначертае план, та макар и за смехотворно кратък срок - да речем, за около хиляда години, но не може да бъде сигурен дори в собствения си утрешен ден?”
― The Master and Margarita
“Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild's ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details. Even when you are wrong. Especially then, in fact. A grandmother is both a sword and a shield.”
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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